Aariz M Blog 2

Hello, I might be a little late to this but here it is. I'm here to talk about Carlson in part 2. Carlson seems to have a split personality to certain things. Here we see him as a nice guy. "Glad to meet ya," the big man said. "My name's Carlson." But here we see him with a mean attitude towards the dog. "Why'n't you get Candy to shoot his old dog and give him one of the pups to raise up?" I think that Carlson will get mad at Lennie or George for either hurting somebody or disrespecting him. I also think that Carlson will stay nice to Lennie or George and have a mean attitude to certain things.

Aariz A: Dog

Carlson probably suggested to shoot the dog to put it out of its misery, and to save it from future incidents. I think this was because all the dog does is sit in a doorway. He has nothing to do on the ranch. This could symbolize this happening to Lennie, George, Curley's wife, or even Curley, This is so because one of these people might do something that could cost them their life. For example, Curley could hurt Lennie, and George might have to defend Lennie by attacking Curley.

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Spencer K
3/16/17
Blues


         In part three of, of mice and men many things happened such as one big fight between Curley and Lennie.  In this fight scene it showed how Lennie is a nice person and didnt want to hurt Curley.  George didnt want to see this happen so he encouraged Lennie to fight and, "The next minute Curley was flopping like a fish on a line.  Lennie grabbed Curleys hand and wouldnt let go.  Afterwards Lennie said he was sorry.  This reminded mo of what happened in weed Lennie grabed the dress like he did to Curley.  That was the fight.

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In part three of the novel Lennie brings up the dream ranch again. This makes George talk and talk all about how great it will be and all the little details about it. George says "Got a little win'mill. Got a little shack on it, an' a chicken run. Got a kitchen, orchard, cherries, apples, peaches, cots, nuts, got a few berries"(page 56-57). This quote chows that George can still dream even though hes got a temper. Also, when George was telling Lennie all about it Candy was in the room as well and he wanted in. At first George wasn't so sure about letting him come too but then when he found out Candy had enough money to buy the ranch he couldn't say no. I think this proves that sometimes if you keep dreaming and don't let it go then it could happen. I think this because George kept on dreaming all his life about the ranch and he could have easily let the dream go, but instead he held on to it and he finally found someone who can make his dream reality.

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For my blog today I'm going to be picking at how the way Carlson talked to Candy's dog in such a demeaning tone and then killing him might have symbolized something. When Carlson walked in, and took a sniff of the place he knew " that dog stank....[Candy's] gotta get him out" (44). Candy's dog might symbolize the idea of dreams in that time period. During this time dreaming took up time you could be working and earning money to survive. When Carlson killed Candy's dog that might have also symbolized the idea of how much to dream. How Candy got used to his dogs stench is also like how dreamers get hooked on dreaming, and soon enough consequences will appear like you not being able able to reach a dream from dreaming to much.

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The first half of Part 3 tells me how Curley is starting to become suspicious about his wife always running away from him. Whenever Curley cannot find his wife, he always asks anyone, "Any you guys seen my wife?" (53). This situation also occurred in Part 2 when Curley was first introduced in the book. Curley is always looking for his wife, which is the whole reason why is barely in each part of the book so far. Not only that but in Part 2, the old man said that Curley's wife "got the eye" (28). In other words, his wife flirts with guys. This lead to Curley being suspicious about his wife flirting with Slim. Curley asks George and the others in part 3,"Where the ----'s Slim?" (53). After he heard that Slim was at the barn and left 5-10 minutes ago, he "jumped out the door and banged it after him" (54). Even this quote shows how after all these times Curley has been looking for his wife, she has always been somewhere else with possibly either Slim or another guy.

Candy Joins The Dream

In my reading Of Mice and Men today, part three, there is a new person interested in hooking up with Lennie and George to "live off the fatta da land". Candy overhears George and Lennie discussing their dream plans. He asks if he can join, and also volunteers to invest his life's savings so they can begin their new life sooner.  I really enjoyed the part of the conversation where the men discussed what they could do if they were their own boss.  They could just go to a circus if one came to town, or they could have friends over to spend the night.  They almost sounded like kids they were so excited.  "George said wonderingly, 'S'pose they was a carnival or circus come to town, or a ball game, or any damn thing." Old Candy nodded in appreciation of the idea. "We'd just go to her,' George said. 'We wouldn't ask nobody if we could. Jus' say, 'Well go to her, 'an' we would. Jus' milk the cow and sling some grain to the chickens an' go to her.'"  I can't wait to see what happens next.